18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in …

and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in … newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups tend to pay lower wages, ceteris paribus. On average, wages in newly …

labour turnover rates, ceteris paribus. Moreover, bargaining coverage rates and wages in new firms are lower than in similar …

of earnings. We find large selection effects both in terms of worker and firm unobserved components of wages. The …

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link … between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …

incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals' employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms …